When Checkout hands you a Receiver token, that Receiver is full: the customer already sent bitcoin to the Receiver, and the bitcoin were exchanged to USD. If you do not use the Receiver, then the funds will be stranded between you and the customer. (Whereas there is no downside to not...

Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective Greg Brockman , July 21, 2014 Many people have remarked that Bitcoin resembles the internet in the early 90s: we haven’t yet built the Googles that will make it accessible or the Facebooks and Netflixes that will make it broadly useful. So it’s an open ...